Manager, Software Engineering - Growth Platform

Figma; New York, San Francisco (NY, CA); Hybrid; USD 258,000 - 376,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental & vision insurance

Retirement plan with company contribution

Generous PTO

Learning & development stipend

Job summary

Figma is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Growth Platform in New York. You will lead the initial engineering team, define the platform's direction, and integrate AI-driven approaches to enhance product capabilities.

The ideal candidate has at least 3 years in engineering management and 7 years in software engineering. You will need experience driving impactful changes and collaborating across teams. This role offers remote flexibility within the US and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in engineering management with a strong track record.
• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience driving significant impact from changes.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead the initial engineering team for the Growth Platform.
• Define and evolve the platform's vision.
• Integrate AI-driven approaches for efficiency.

Skills

Engineering management

Software engineering

Team building

Cross-functional collaboration

AI integration

Education

Bachelor's degree in relevant field

Job description

Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma's platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI. From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us!

You will be the first engineering manager for the Growth Platform, and you'll help shape its vision, starting with the Communications capability. The platform will grow as we prove value.

You'll partner with leadership to define the platform's direction, assess existing technology, identify the next set of investments, and help evolve the vision through learning gained from shipping, customers, and overall ecosystem. While aiming for the sky in terms of longer term vision, you will deliver incremental value every sprint by being grounded in today's reality.

This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.

What you'll do at Figma

• Build and lead the team: Hire the initial engineers for the Growth Platform's first team. Set the team's culture, operating rhythm, and engineering standards. Mentor engineers, create career growth opportunities, and help scale the organization as scope expands.
• Build capabilities that unlock new experiments: This isn't about building an experimentation platform—it's about building the product capabilities (personalized messaging, self‑service publishing, cross‑system integrations) that make it dramatically easier for teams across Figma to run growth experiments without engineering bottlenecks.
• Leverage AI to scale quality and speed: Explore and integrate AI‑driven approaches—for brand consistency checks, visual quality validation, copy generation, and experiment governance—that allow experiment volume to grow without proportional growth in manual review.
• Provide hands‑on technical leadership: Guide architecture decisions, review system designs, and make build‑vs‑integrate choices.
• Partner across the company: Collaborate with Marketing to align on cross‑channel messaging, partner with growth teams to identify platform capability needs, and work with product teams to ensure growth messaging improves rather than detracts from the end‑user experience.
• Shape the platform vision: Define what to build next based on adoption, impact, and what you learn from each phase. The roadmap will evolve as we learn—you'll be central to how it evolves.

We’d love to hear from you if you have

• 3+ years in engineering management, with a strong track record of building and shipping application platforms.
• 7+ years of software engineering experience at the application or product tier.
• Experience driving outsized impact from small changes—say, a UI layout change that lifted growth 20%—and energized by enabling such wins at 10x scale.
• Demonstrate strategic insight to optimize impact for both longer and short term.
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments, delivering continuous value while building toward a longer‑term platform vision.
• Track record of prioritizing by impact, leveraging existing assets to accelerate, and scaling through platform‑level thinking.
• Experience working cross‑functionally with marketing, product, design, and data.

Added pluses

• Experience at a product‑led growth company during a period of multi‑product expansion.
• Experience building platforms that enable non‑engineering teams (marketing, design, content) to run experiments or publish content independently.
• Background in personalization systems, recommendation engines, or ML‑driven content selection.
• Experience integrating with customer data platforms, marketing automation systems, or building user attribute services from product usage data.
• Familiarity with using AI for quality assurance, brand consistency, or content governance at scale.
• Experience with internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) infrastructure.

At Figma, one of our values is Grow as you go. We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and develop their skills. If you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways.

Pay Transparency Disclosure

Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process, market demands, and specific work location. The listed range is a guideline. For roles that are available to be filled remotely, the pay range is localized according to employee work location by a factor of between 80% and 100% of range.

Figma offers equity to employees, as well a competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental & vision, retirement with company contribution, parental leave & reproductive or family planning support, mental health & wellness benefits, generous PTO, company recharge days, a learning & development stipend, a work from home stipend, and cell phone reimbursement.

Annual Base Salary Range: $258,000 - $376,000 USD

Equal Opportunity

At Figma we celebrate and support our differences. Figma is an equal opportunity workplace - we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity/expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

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